Thomas Pennycuff has been sentenced to three years in prison for using the Internet to arrange a meeting with child.
Pennycuff, 27, Ark City, entered a plea agreement with Sedgwick County prosecutors on one count of electronic solicitation of a child. He is also to register as a sex offender for 10 years from date of conviction, which is Aug. 24 of this year.
Pennycuff was sentenced this week, about two years after he was arrested for arranging a meeting with an investigator who was posing as an underage girl. When Pennycuff went to meet the girl in Wichita, he was arrested.
At the time of his arrest, Cowley County authorities said Pennycuff used the Internet in an attempt to solicit sex from young girls. Police interviewed more than 80 girls who chatted with him at one point or another.
His sentence also will include a post-release sentence, or parole, of 36 months, according to a court spokesperson in Wichita.
Pennycuff is currently in the Sedgwick County jail, where he will remain until being transferred into the custody of the Kansas Department of Corrections.
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